I read somewhere if you want to serve juice that you have to have a food vendors permit. That may be why? Not sure. But I will make sure to stock up on pop. I REALLY want to bring Jungle Juice and Apple Pie with me. I will tell you... Cake Vodka I think is the gift from the gods! Pineapple Juice, Grenadine and Cake vodka.. Taste just like upside down Pineapple cake!

But yeah please fill me in what is good booze to bring with? This will be my first year and want to make some friends out there. Im kinda "shy" meaning its some what hard to just go up and talk to people. If they come up to me im fine.

maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus

hmmmm pineapple upside down cake drink. I love pineapple upside down cake and I love vodka, but together kinda frightens me. I'm game to give it a try though. I'm sure I'll forget all about it by next year but I'd love to stop by for a taste.

Sam's Club liquor store is awesome and cheaper than anything else I've found.

$9 handles of Popov, $16 handles of Svedka, $27 handles of in-house "Grey Goose". I pretty much only drink vodka if I'm doing liquor, but there's a comparison for you. The other types are along those pricing lines too.

Actually just yesterday I had this talk with someone about mixers on the playa and how there's always a shortage of them. Why dont bars just bring a shit ton of koolaid or other powdered drinks and an abundance of water? I'll take some red koolaid and vodka over ice any day out there.

We mixed up a couple gallons of tang and vodka for our camp and it was quite good as long as it was cold - tasted pretty vile when warm.

Savannah: I don't know what it is, but no thread here escapes alive. You'll get 1 or 2 real answers at minimum, occasionally 10 or 12, and then we flog it until it's unrecognizable and you can't get your deposit back.

As I read the guidelines, a health permit is required if you're serving fresh juice (since it requires safe handling and clean food prep areas, etc). If you are serving things that are commercially pre-packaged and not temperature sensitive (ie pre-packaged juices sold off-the-shelf), no permit is needed.

On the cheap side, surf the sales/deals at places like BevMo, Costco, and local boozy distributors. In some areas, grocery stores are even known to have some great deals from time to time. Bonus points if you're able to surf deals and make it work to get something a step above the bottom-feeder hooch.

We came home with a case of Clamato Bloody Mary Mix and a case of Cuervo Margarita Mix. Rudra makes the best Mojitos and a wide variety of martini's along with all the common well drinks. I still have 4 bottles of absinthe and 6 bottles of limoncello. The Chambord disappeared,,,, funny how that happens.

We gave away almost a case of 2-buck-chuck and half a case of Limoncello. Monday and Tuesday after close, we had a sign up on the street, "Have Booze Need Smokes" that brought in some folks who struck camp right when that accident on I-80 caused a SEVEN HOUR drive to pavement. BMIR was telling everybody, but we were telling everyone who passed by in a loaded vehicle.

We not only got smokes Monday night, but a gourmet chef to prepare us some marvelous vittles from the left over shit in our coolers. PLUS they helped us finish striking camp the next day! Only on the playa.

Canned and bottled juices are fine to serve without needing a permit. trilobyte is correct about serving fresh fruits or even celery sticks in Bloody Mary's. Canned olives and onions are okay with martini's. No lime wedge with that gin & tonic unless you have a permit.

Nice then I'm good to go. It is going to be all off the shelf juice. I just need to find discounted cake vodka. That stuff is a bit pricey. The jungle juice is dirt cheap booze and everclear is cheap to. It sucks I cant buy 190 in Iowa or NV. only 150. ugg.

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maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus

tattoogoddess wrote:Nice then I'm good to go. It is going to be all off the shelf juice. I just need to find discounted cake vodka. That stuff is a bit pricey. The jungle juice is dirt cheap booze and everclear is cheap to. It sucks I cant buy 190 in Iowa or NV. only 150. ugg.